Have you ever thought that people can sometimes seem very rude, thoughtless and even hateful? This can run the gamut from someone simply cutting us off in traffic to someone trying to pick a fight with us for no real reason. But are people who behave this way our real enemies?
Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:12, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Our enemy is not any person—flesh and blood. Our real enemy (the one we truly need to fight against) is the power behind the bad attitudes and actions of all people—Satan himself. So, the next time someone does something rude or even hateful toward us, we need to remember that it’s actually Satan—our real enemy—working behind the scenes. Then we can better practice what Christ tells us about how to treat our human “enemies”—we are to “love” them (Matthew 5:44).
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